PSTET : Chandigarh paper leak accused knew Vyapam fraudsters too

CHANDIGARH: One of the key accused arrested in leaking question papers of the Chandigarh administration's teacher recruitment exams was in touch with those involved in Madhya Pradesh's more sinister Vyapam scam.
This has come out in the interrogation of Vajinder Nain, who was arrested for leaking the question papers for recruitment of junior basic teachers (JBT) and trained graduate teachers (TGT) in Chandigarh. Nain, who belongs to Sonipat, was arrested from Bhiwani and remanded in four days police custody on November 3.
Although police officers are still investigating exactly how Nain knew the Vyapam scam accused, they are not ruling out the possibility of gangs operating in different parts of the country networking with each other to leak question papers of various entrance exams.
A senior Chandigarh police officer told TOI, "Nain has given us some names of people involved in the Vyapam scam. We are not sure if he was involved in Vyapam, but it definitely shows a deeper rot and how gangs are linking up with each other to make money by leaking question papers."
When contacted, Chandigarh DSP Krishan Kumar said, "We are looking at Nain's involvement in other paper leak scandals, including one in Chandigarh police recruitment, railway recruitments in Delhi and similar scams reported in Punjab."
Powerful politicians, senior government officials and businessmen across Madhya Pradesh have been accused in what is known as the Vyapam scam in which bribes were paid for admission to professional courses and to get government jobs by candidates who failed the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board's entrance tests. The scam became sinister when nearly 40 people linked with the scam died in mysterious ways leading to the investigation being handed over to the CBI.